Apresentação 4: Uma Contribuição para a Estratégia de Desenvolvimento Nacional: Pesquisa Aplicada sobre Acumulação de Capacidades Tecnológicas e Inovação para o Fortalecimento da Competitividade Industrial no Brasil

Criado em Outubro de 1999, o Programa de Pesquisa tem como missão gerar uma contribuição fundamental ao fortalecimento da competitividade industrial no Brasil, por meio de pesquisa aplicada, de ponta, sobre acumulação de capacidades tecnológicas e inovação.

Apresentação 7: produção de pesquisa e impacto na sociedade

Comentarista: Renato Flores (Núcleo de Prospecção e Inteligência Internacional)

Exogenous shocks and misattribution of responsibility for economic performance: results from survey experiments

Recent models of economic voting assume that citizens can discount exogenous factors when assessing government's economic performance. Yet there is evidence that Latin American voters do not behave in such way, and attribute to presidents outcomes that are beyond their control. This paper presents three survey experiments designed to explore mechanisms that could potentially correct such misattribution, and therefore contribute to debiasing individual behavior towards government evaluation. Our results provide individual-level evidence of the misattribution found in aggregate studies of electorate behavior, and reinforce psychologist's skepticism towards prospects of mental decontamination, as we found very scant evidence that providing information, raising awareness, or increasing motivation to correct biases infuenced individual's evaluation of president's performance.

Cyclicality of SME Lending and Government Involvement in Banks

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan maturity, funding structure, liquidity, profitability, and credit demand-side factors. The public mandate is set by local governments and stipulates a deviation from strict profit maximization and a sustainable provision of financial services to local customers. We find that banks with a public mandate are 25 percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks with high liquidity and stable deposit funding. Our findings have implications for the banking structure, financial stability and the finance-growth nexus in a local context.

Informational synergies in consumer credit

Lenders can tap into multiple sources of private information to assess consumer credit risk but little is known about the informational synergies between these sources. Using unique panel data on checking accounts and credit card accounts from the same customers during 2007-2014, we find that activity measures from both account types contain information beyond credit scores and other controls. Checking accounts display warning indications earlier and more accurately than credit card accounts. We also investigate the consistency of information, the reasons for defaults, and selection effects. The evidence highlights sizeable informational synergies that lenders can use to manage credit relationships.

Too difficult to manage, too big to ignore: party choice in multiparty presidential systems

In consensual (proportional) highly fragmented multiparty settings, political parties have two historical choices to make or pathways to follow: i) playing a majoritarian role by offering credible candidates to the head of the executive; or ii) playing the median legislator game. Each of those choices will have important consequences not only for the party system but also for the government. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role played by median legislator parties on coalition management strategies of presidents in a comparative perspective. We analyze in depth the Brazilian case where the Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB) has basically functioned as the median legislator party in Congress by avoiding the approval of extreme policies, both on the left and on the right. Based on an expert survey in Latin America, we built an index of Pmdbismo and identified that there is a positive correlation between partisan fragmentation and median legislator parties. In addition, we investigate the effect of having a median legislator party in the governing coalition. We found that it is cheaper and less difficult for the government to manage the coalition having the median legislative party on board.

Sistema político brasileiro: disfuncional ou má gerência?: custos de governabilidade no presidencialismo de coalizão

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas

Municipalização da saúde : inovação na gestão e democracia local no Brasil

EBAPE - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas

Implicações políticas do estudo democracia e inovação na gestão local da saúde

EBAPE - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas

Bright minds, big rent: gentrification and the rising returns to skill

In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households through reduced tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set covering the 27 largest US cities, years 1980-2010, we employ a city-level Bartik demand shifter for skilled labor and find support for our hypothesis: full-time skilled workers favor proximity to the city center and their increased presence can account for the observed price changes, notably the rising price premium commanded by centrality.

Big Data e gestão processual

Apresentamos um projeto inovador na intersecção da tecnologia da informação, gestão, e direito, com o intuito de oferecer otimização de resultados, redução de custos e de tempo. A equipe proponente foi formada no projeto Big Data e Gestão Processual, do qual participam três escolas da Fundação Getulio Vargas que são referência em todo Brasil: as escolas de Direito, de Administração de Empresas e de Matemática Aplicada, todas do Rio de Janeiro.

Cyclicality of SME lending and government involvement in banks

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan maturity, funding structure, liquidity, profitability, and credit demand-side factors. The public mandate is set by local governments and stipulates a deviation from strict profit maximization and a sustainable provision of financial services to local customers. We find that banks with a public mandate are 25 percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks with high liquidity and stable deposit funding. Our findings have implications for the banking structure, financial stability and the finance-growth nexus in a local context.

Why banks want to be complex

We investigate whether and how bank complexity affects performance and systemic risk. We base the analysis on a complexity measure that captures diversification and diversity, controlling for size and other bank characteristics. We find that more complex banks exhibit a higher profitability, lower risk, and higher market share. Moreover, we show an inversely U-shaped relation between bank complexity and banks’ sensitivity to systemic shocks. The evidence challenges the view that higher bank complexity is per se bad and is consistent with theoretical models that show that diversity in the banking system is critical for financial stability.

Previdência social pública: a experiência brasileira

O objetivo do trabalho é analisar a evolução do Sistema Previdenciário Brasileiro. O trabalho está dividido em quatro capítulos. No capítulo II, faz-se um histórico do Sistema Previdenciário Brasileiro. Como os anos mais recentes são os de maior importância, desenvolve-se, no capítulo III, um estudo mais detalhado dos últimos anos de nosso sistema. No capítulo IV conclui-se o trabalho colecionando os principais resultados encontrados.